In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy (Ancient Magic and Divination, 6)

"In the Path of the Moon" offers a collection of essays concerning Babylonian celestial divination. It investigates various aspects of cuneiform celestial omens, horoscopes, and astronomy and their wide-ranging influences on later Hellenistic science and philosophy. CONTENTS Chapter One Fate and Divination in Mesopotamia Chapter Two New Evidence for the History of Astrology Chapter Three Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts Chapter Four The Assumed 29th Aḫû Tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil Chapter Five TCL 6 13: Mixed Traditions in Late Babylonian Astrology Chapter Six Benefic and Malefic Planets in Babylonian Astrology Chapter Seven Elements of the Babylonian Contribution to Hellenistic Astrology Chapter Eight Babylonian Seasonal Hours Chapter Nine Babylonian Horoscopy: The Texts and their Relations Chapter Ten Continuity and Change in Omen Literature Chapter Eleven The Babylonian Origins of the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac Chapter Twelve Scribes and Scholars: The Ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil Chapter Thirteen Lunar Data in Babylonian Horoscopes Chapter Fourteen A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts Chapter Fifteen Old Babylonian Celestial Divination Chapter Sixteen The Heavens and the Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia: The View from a Polytheistic Cosmology Chapter Seventeen A Short History of the Waters Above the Firmament Chapter Eighteen Periodicities and Period Relations in Babylonian Celestial Sciences Chapter Nineteen Conditionals, Inference, and Possibility in Ancient Mesopotamian Science Chapter Twenty “If P, then Q”: Form and Reasoning in Babylonian Divination Chapter Twenty-One Divine Causality and Babylonian Divination Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. \'The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination.\' Lorenzo Verderame, \'Sapienza\' Università di Roma \'The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg's latest publication.\' Henryk Drawnel, SDB Fate And Divination In Mesopotamia -- New Evidence For The History Of Astrology -- Canonicity In Cuneiform Texts -- The Assumed 29th Aḫû Tablet Of Enūma Anu Enlil -- Tcl 6 13 : Mixed Traditions In Late Babylonian Astrology -- Benefic And Malefic Planets In Babylonian Astrology -- Elements Of The Babylonian Contribution To Hellenistic Astrology -- Babylonian Seasonal Hours -- Babylonian Horoscopy : The Texts And Their Relations -- Continuity And Change In Omen Literature -- The Babylonian Origins Of The Mandaean Book Of The Zodiac -- Scribes And Scholars : The ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil -- Lunar Data In Babylonian Horoscopes -- A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme In Non-tabular Astronomical Texts -- Old Babylonian Celestial Divination -- The Heavens And The Gods In Ancient Mesopotamia : The View From A Polytheistic Cosmology -- A Short History Of The Waters Above The Firmament -- Periodicities And Period Relations In Babylonian Celestial Sciences -- Conditionals, Inference, And Possibility In Ancient Mesopotamian Science -- If P, Then Q : Form And Reasoning In Babylonian Divination -- Divine Causality And Babylonian Divination. By Francesca Rochberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Fate and divination in Mesopotamia New evidence for the history of astrology Canonicity in cuneiform texts The assumed 29th ahû tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil TCL 6 13 : mixed traditions in late Babylonian astrology Benefic and malefic planets in Babylonian astrology Elements of the Babylonian contribution to Hellenistic astrology Babylonian seasonal hours Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations Continuity and change in omen literature The Babylonian origins of the Mandaean book of the zodiac Scribes and scholars : the tupshar Enūma Anu Enlil Lunar data in Babylonian horoscopes A Babylonian rising times scheme in non-tabular astronomical texts Old Babylonian celestial divination The heavens and the gods in ancient Mesopotamia : the view from a polytheistic cosmology A short history of the waters above the firmament Periodicities and period relations in Babylonian celestial sciences Conditionals, inference, and possibility in ancient Mesopotamian science "If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination Divine causality and Babylonian divination. 001......Page 1 002......Page 25 003......Page 43 004......Page 55 005......Page 89 006......Page 109 007......Page 137 008......Page 159 009......Page 167 010......Page 191 011......Page 213 012......Page 235 013......Page 247 014......Page 261 015......Page 281 016......Page 295 017......Page 327 018......Page 341 019......Page 363 020......Page 379 021......Page 397 022......Page 423 023......Page 435 024......Page 449 025......Page 463 ## Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- In the path of the Moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy / by Francesca Rochberg. p. cm. -(Studies in ancient magic and divination)